Quotes About Thirst

On the plane from Paris I heard a man say, "The first thing I'm going to do when I get home is order a Big Gulp. I'm going to supersize everything!" He said he'd been thirsty the entire time he was in Paris, and though I'd never thought about it, if you're used to carrying a trash-can-size cup filled with crushed ice and soda, I suppose it would be hard to spend a few weeks in Europe.

Everyone in America is extremely concerned with hydration. Go more than five minutes without drinking, and you'll surely be discovered behind a potted plant, dried out like some escaped hermit crab.

Yeah, and piss is just like honey if you're hungry enough.

Look: Christ on the Cross died of suffocation, but His only complaint was of thirst. If thirst can be so taxing that even God Incarnate complains about it, imagine the effect on a regular human. It

you don't know what thirst is until you drink for the first time" ? Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

unquenchable

So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.

I haven't taken into account how much I drink. I do drink a lot when I am on stage anyway. You will see me come back and have sips of water. I haven't taken into account how much.

That desire to compete is almost a physical addiction.

You ask me why a soft numbness diffuses all my inmost senses with deep oblivion, as though with thirsty throat I'd drained the cup that brings the sleep of Lethe.

You can never get enough of what you don't really want.

It's just that I'd rather die of drink than of thirst.

THE BIRD AND THE WATER A bird which has not heard of fresh water Dips his beak in salt-water year after year. (Anwar-i-Suhaili)

The bird which has no knowledge of pure water, has his beak in salt water all year round.

El imitador es como un canal. Él mismo no bebe, pero puede llevar el agua hasta los sedientos.

Bottled water tastes like stale rocks

To be close to your greatest desire could be an exquisite pain

Madam, I could teach lessons in hell on the subject of 'want.'

He was in awe of the thirst that people had for someone to tell them that everything was going to be all right. He marveled at the gullibility and vulnerability of his fellow humans. No wonder the churches called them sheep. They were woolly-headed pack animals being herded around for the benefit of whoever knew how to control the dogs.

I was sweating like a bottle of beer in a biker bar

A snake came to my water troughOn a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat,To drink there.

The water of grace. A sponge to thirsty lips. A trickle and then a flood. Hope.

How fortunate for Us that We thirst for glorious souls rather than faultless ones, or We should be parched indeed, and most lonely in Our perfect righteousness.

Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.